Automobile.



Patented Aug. 20, 19m. A. THOMPSUN.

AUTOMOBILE.

(Application filed Jan. 7, 1901.)

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ALFRED THOMPSON, OF TOLEDO, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN BICYCLE COMPANY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, AND NEW YORK, N. Y.

AUTOMOBILE.

3EEQIFIGATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 680,899, dated August 20, 1901.

Application filed January '7, 1901. $e1-ia1N0.42,280. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern; handle by a link or pump spear n, that is piv- Be it known that I, ALFRED THOMPSON, a oted to the end of the steering-handle and citizen of the United States, residing at To that is also pivoted to the plunger by means ledo, in the State of Ohio, have invented cerof a stud 0. The packing for the plunger is 5 tain new anduseful Improvements in Autoprovided by a cap or packing-ring p on the mobiles, of which the following is a specificatop of the steering-post. t O Instead of forming the pump-barrel inte- The invention relates especially toimprovegral with the steering-post it may be made of ments in automobiles that are propelled by a separate piece q, that is held in fixed rela- 1o steam-engines or hydrocarbon-motors requirtion to the steering-post and steering-handle ing the transmission of water orother liquids by means of an arm or bracket 0*. This ar from one part of the vehicle to another; and rangenient permits the pump-spear to be pivit consists in providing a pump that can be oted to the steering-handle at a point 3 interoperated by the steering-handle of the vehicle mediate or" its ends and also permits the pump I5 and in the other new and novel features of to be placed entirely below the floor t of the construction and combination of parts herevehicle. inafter set forth and claimed. The pump is under the immediate control In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 of the driver and provides a ready and conrepresents a side elevation of a vehicle provenient means of supplying water to the 2o vided with a pump, the storage-tanks and the boiler or for causing and maintaining the cirmechanism for operating the vehicle being culation of water in a cooling-jacket if a moshown partly in dotted lines. Fig. 2 repretor is used. It can also be used for other pursents an enlarged detail View, partly in secposes, as desired, merely by changing the contion, of a pump, showing its connections and nections of the supply and delivery pipes; but 25 means for operating same. Fig. 8 represents few additional parts are required to those now a vertical section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. necessary in the operation and control of a Fig. 4 is a detailed view of a portion of the self-propelled vehicle, and the construction steering-handle and steering-post of the veand location of the pump are such as to rehicle, showing another arrangement of the quire little, if any, additional space. 3o pump. I claim as my invention- The pump is actuated by a steering-handle 1. In an automobile, the combination of a (1, whereby the steering-post b, that is consteering-post provided with a pump, means nected with the steering mechanism c of the connecting said pump with a suitable source vehicle, is rotated. The steering-handle is of supply, and a steering-handle for rotating 35 pivoted atcl uponabracketorcollare, secured the steering-post and operating the pump,

to the steering-post, so that the handle is persubstantially as described. mitted vertical movement independent of its 2. In an automobile, the combination of a movement about the axis of the steering-post. steering-post provided with a pump, a supply f The barrel fof the pump is preferably formed and a delivery pipe communicating with said 0 40 integral with the upper part of the steeringpump, and a steering-handle pivoted to the post, which is hollowed out to form the pump steering-post for rotating same and operating chamber and is connected by a pipe 9 with a the pump, substantially as described. supply-tank h and by a pipe?) with the boiler 3. In an automobile, the combination of a j or other part of the vehicle to which the liqsteering-post provided with a pump rotatable 45 uid contents of the supply-tank are to be therewith,supply and deliverypipes commutransferred. A portion 7t of each pipe adjanicating with the pump and having flexible cent to the steering-post is flexible, so as to sections adjacent thereto, and a steering-hanpermit rotation of the steering-post, and the dle operatively connected with said steeringpipes are also provided at any desired point post and pump, substantially as described. 103 50 with Valves Z. The pump plunger or piston t. In an automobile, the combination witha m is operatively connected with the steeringsteering-post having a pump-barrel formed integral therewith, a supply-pipe and a de- In testimony whereof I sign this applicalivery-pipe communicating with said pnmption, in the presence of two Witnesses, this 10 barrel each provided with a flexible section 26th day of December, 1900.

adjacent thereto, a steering-handle operatively connected with the steering-post and ALFRED THOMPSON with the pump-plunger, and a packing for Witnesses:

said pump-plunger upon the top of the steer- H. S. SEYMAN,

ing-post, substantially as described. W. S. HUNT. 

